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THE BEAST MUST DIE
by Blake, Nicholas. (Cecil Day-Lewis)
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blake, Nicholas (C. Day Lewis). THE BEAST MUST DIE. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938. First American Edition. 8vo., 260pp., publisher's yellow cloth covered boards. A very good copy of this brillian Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone Nigel Strangeways mystery. Collector's [Landfried] custom plain heavy white paper protective dustwrapper, neatly hand-lettered descriptions & titles on the upper cover & spine as was his custom. What this collector's books sometimes lacked in condition, they made up for in importance. Name inked out on the front pastedown, front fly leaf & rear pastedown, tiny collector's pocket on pastedown otherwise a reasonable copy showing modest use. A very interesting example. Keating #26, Hatchards #81, Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, pp. 62-3. Filmed by Claude Chabrol in 1969 as 'Que la Bete Meure' [This Man Must Die]. $250.
Synopsis
NICHOLAS BLAKE was the pseudonym of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, who was born in County Laois, Ireland in 1904. After his mother died in 1906, he was brought up in London by his father, spending summer holidays with relatives in Wexford. He was educated at Sherborne School and Wadham College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1927. Blake initially worked as a teacher to supplement his income from his poetry writing and he published his first Nigel Strangeways novel, A Question of Proof , in 1935. Blake went on to write a further nineteen crime novels, all but four of which featured Nigel Strangeways, as well as numerous poetry collections and translations. During the Second World War he worked as a publications editor in the Ministry of Information, which he used as the basis for the Ministry of Morale in Minute for Murder , and after the war he joined the publishers Chatto & Windus as an editor and director. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1968 and died in 1972 at the home of his friend, the writer Kingsley Amis.
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- Bookseller
- TBCL The Book Collection Library
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30243
- Title
- THE BEAST MUST DIE
- Author
- Blake, Nicholas. (Cecil Day-Lewis)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- QUEEN'S QUORUM, HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE, FIRST EDITION MYSTERY CRIME DETECTION BRITISH DETECTIVE FICTION .
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